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A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.

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DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.

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Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

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adore, v.t. To venerate expectantly.

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Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.

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HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.

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An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

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Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

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Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager

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Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

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Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.

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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

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EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

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picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.

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ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

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Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

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LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

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